Water war breaks out between Campana and Mandatoriccio. Mayor Grispino: “They have reduced the water flow”

John

By John

Chaos… water on the Ionian. The mayor of Mandatoriccio thunders: “My community is suffering a real act of bullying by the mayor of Campana who has decided to illegitimately reduce the flow of water from the Sant’Angelo spring serving our town. If the inconvenience and poor service continue, accompanied by the Municipal Police officers, the municipal maintenance workers and a delegation of citizens, I will personally go to the water switch and we will authoritatively restore a right that is currently deprived of us: the normal water supply”. This is what the mayor Aldo Grispino has announced, informing that he has already informed the Prefecture of Cosenza “of the serious, unilateral and inadmissible obstructive action, limiting a fundamental right, such as that to water, perpetuated without any common sense and against all logic and norms by Campana’s colleague in his capacity as president of the Sant’Angelo Consortium that manages the eponymous pipeline serving the two municipalities. And the same Prefecture, in response to what was reported by the Municipality of Mandatoriccio, asks the Municipal Administration of Campana to evaluate the circumstance that the reduction in water flow could have negative repercussions on the population. Beyond any other evaluation – continues the mayor – that of Campana’s colleague qualifies as a behavior devoid of any feeling of solidarity and cooperation. It is not tolerable to halve the flow of drinking water to a community at a time characterized by drought that is generating an unprecedented emergency throughout the territory. There will probably be debts that have accumulated with past administrations, in the past decades of consortium management of Sant’Angelo water and certainly not due to the responsibility of a single municipality. But this – he points out – if it requires transparency and the need for reorganization, does not justify a haphazard intervention that is in fact causing the population to be burdened with possible political responsibilities and above all very serious inconveniences. Last July 24, the Municipal Treasury issued two payment orders for a total sum of 70 thousand euros, paid in favor of the Consortium, precisely to meet the economic needs of the entity. And the response of the mayor of Campana to this concrete act of availability and collaboration of the current Municipal Administration that cannot assume any responsibilities of others in past decades was – the Mayor specifies – to see the water flow of the pipeline reduced from 4 to 2 liters per second. We will not tolerate – he adds – further abuses by those who are convinced they can plan and carry them forward, just because the source in question is located on the territory of the municipality he administers. The need now is to restore, without ifs and buts, the regular flow of water to allow citizens and tourists to be able to regularly supply themselves to the Sant’Angelo pipeline. For the immediate future, however, it will be necessary to redefine the rules of the game that keep this Consortium afloat, today in unequal parts. First of all, it will be necessary to appoint a commissioner for the consortium institution and for this we are already talking, through the regional councilor Gianluca Gallo, with the offices of the Calabria Region to evaluate together – concludes Grispino – every useful and effective action, in the general interest of the two communities”.